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Nobel Prize Day 2024- How Alfred Nobel Had One Leg Up On A Global Scale · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett Well in show prep today
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  Speaker 1: for Arthur Idella. I did some research and today is
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  Speaker 1: actually Nobel Prize Day, and that's right. The man who
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  Speaker 1: the prize is named for, Alfred Nobel, died on this date,
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  Speaker 1: and since nineteen oh one, the esteemed Nobel Prize has
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  Speaker 1: been given a day on the anniversary of its namesakes.
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  Speaker 1: Passing interesting timing because Nobel laureates are always in the news,
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  Speaker 1: but this time I think they're in the right. See
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  Speaker 1: seventy seven Nobel Laureates a day before the actual honoring
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  Speaker 1: of the Nobel Prize and probably the giving in the
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  Speaker 1: Forum of the Prize had this to write about the
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  Speaker 1: DHHS elect and appointed, I should say, Robert F. Kennedy.
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  Speaker 1: Placing mister Kennedy in charge of DHS would put the
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  Speaker 1: public's health in jeopardy and undermine America's global leadership in
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  Speaker 1: health science. And while I've thought some of these other
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  Speaker 1: critiques of Picks are just typical media, I think this
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  Speaker 1: one is not elitist. Not just a scientist or a
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  Speaker 1: physicist or someone in medicine writing a complaint letter about
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  Speaker 1: a Trump appointee. I think they have a valididity here,
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  Speaker 1: and I'd love to get on someone from the Nobel Prize,
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  Speaker 1: you know, organization, to talk about how important it is
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  Speaker 1: that Laurie and those who've won the prize are weighing
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  Speaker 1: on these things, how important that is because they are experts.
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  Speaker 1: There are Nobel Prize winners. I mean, you talk about
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  Speaker 1: vaccines in fact this year, this year they're honoring the
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  Speaker 1: man who created them RNA vaccine through his work the
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  Speaker 1: COVID nineteen vaccine, Drue Weissman. They're honoring him, or he
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  Speaker 1: was included that they honored him, I should say, And
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  Speaker 1: he's included in this letter of why Kennedy should not
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  Speaker 1: be the d h HS leader. He's one of seventy
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  Speaker 1: seven that spoke out thirty one winners in medicine, eighteen
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  Speaker 1: in physics, seventeen in chemistry, and eleven in economics. So
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  Speaker 1: how about that the day before the Nobel Prize anniversary
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  Speaker 1: rolls around, this letter comes out, they had a banquet
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  Speaker 1: or they're having a banquet which will serve thirteen hundred
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  Speaker 1: guests in Sweden to honor the twenty twenty four winners.
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  Speaker 1: And this year's work is to basically stop the continued
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  Speaker 1: trajectory and suggest how we can beer our way from
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  Speaker 1: the trajectory of all nuclear On the website, they write
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  Speaker 1: the forum this year will be about how to counter
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  Speaker 1: the threat and mitigate the risk of nuclear war and
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  Speaker 1: advance toward nuclear disarmament. I'll drop that YouTube link because
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  Speaker 1: that's also a pivotal conversation I have, and they are
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  Speaker 1: discouraging Putin from going nuclear. I wish the Nobel Laureates
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  Speaker 1: would also discourage I Ran from going nuclear because they
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  Speaker 1: are also building. I mean, these forums should be paid
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  Speaker 1: attention to because while some might think, oh they're too elitists,
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  Speaker 1: they are too liberal there too. They are experts and
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  Speaker 1: they have won Nobel Prizes for a reason, so I
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  Speaker 1: will trust their judgment, just like I trust them on
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  Speaker 1: this letter to the Senate. By the way, on RFK,
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  Speaker 1: and I think Alfred Nobel would be proud of these
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  Speaker 1: seventy seven award winners for speaking up. I think the
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  Speaker 1: point of this award is because they've made breakthroughs in
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  Speaker 1: their fields, and that's notable. Here's how the original history
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  Speaker 1: of the Nobel Prize started. By the way, when the
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  Speaker 1: inventor is on the website Nobelprize dot org, when the inventor, entrepreneur,
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  Speaker 1: and businessman Alfred Nobel died in his will that is
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  Speaker 1: fortunate to be used to reward those who, during the
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  Speaker 1: preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind.
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  Speaker 1: Nobel's prize would reward outstanding efforts in the fields he
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  Speaker 1: was most involved in during his lifetime physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine,
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  Speaker 1: literature and peace. A long process after his death beginning
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  Speaker 1: to realize his vision in the first Nobel Prizes were
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  Speaker 1: award in nineteen oh one. In October, every year the
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  Speaker 1: new Nobel Prizes and laureates are announced. If you want
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  Speaker 1: me to go a little deeper into the history of
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  Speaker 1: Alfred Nobel, I can real fast because I'm learning with
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  Speaker 1: you here all the one on GOT network. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm learning more about who this Nobel Price namesake was.
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  Speaker 1: He actually was born on October twenty first, eighteen thirty
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  Speaker 1: three and died on December tenth, eighteen ninety six. He
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  Speaker 1: invented dynamite actually and held three hundred and fifty five patents.
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  Speaker 1: They write Alfred Nobel was an inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, and
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  Speaker 1: businessman who also wrote poetry in drama, His varied interests
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  Speaker 1: are reflected in the prize he established, which laid foundation
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  Speaker 1: for in nineteen ninety five when he wrote his last will,
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  Speaker 1: leaving much of the wealth to the establishment of the prize.
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  Speaker 1: Since nineteen oh one, the Nobel Prize has been honoring
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  Speaker 1: men and women from around the world for outstanding achievements
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  Speaker 1: in physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature, and for work in peace.
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  Speaker 1: Now I've often wonder if Trump should get one, because
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  Speaker 1: during his presidency part one there were no wars. It
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  Speaker 1: was a time for peace, to be honest, and why
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  Speaker 1: did they hold it in Sweeten, That is where Alfred
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  Speaker 1: Novelt was born, And there's a whole selection of his
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  Speaker 1: different thoughts on everything. It seems like Alfre Novel was
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  Speaker 1: a well rounded person who had interests in many things.
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  Speaker 1: And they have a couple of different ways to teach
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  Speaker 1: this the childhood is a child grade school way or
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  Speaker 1: the more adult way. His whole story is on the
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  Speaker 1: website Nobelprize dot org, and I will drop that link
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  Speaker 1: in the bio below, but in learning about him here,
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  Speaker 1: by the age of seventeen, Nobel was fluent in Swedish, Russian, French, German,
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  Speaker 1: and English, and his father sent him for training in
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  Speaker 1: chemical engineering, where Nobel visits Sweden, Germany, France, and the
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  Speaker 1: United States, and he worked in labs of great chemists
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  Speaker 1: such as Professor TJ. Polues.
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  Speaker 2: Yea, I don't want to say that wrong, and invented
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  Speaker 2: the chemist who invented nitrol glittering.
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  Speaker 1: And sure enough, sure enough, he worked with the likes
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  Speaker 1: of John Ericsson Assueish American engineer, and then eighteen fifty
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  Speaker 1: two Nobel was asked to come back and work on
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  Speaker 1: the family enterprise and he performed experiments while back home
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  Speaker 1: with his father to develop nitro glycering as a commercially
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  Speaker 1: and technically useful explosive. So he might be someone we
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  Speaker 1: think for the use of fireworks because he was experimenting
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  Speaker 1: and in fact moved his expectator experimentations to a barge
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  Speaker 1: and by eighteen sixty four was able to start mass
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  Speaker 1: production of nitroglycerin. And in eighteen sixty seven he patted
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  Speaker 1: in the material under the name of dynamite to be
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  Speaker 1: able to the dynamite rods. He invented the detonator which
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  Speaker 1: could be lin to g ignited by lighting a few
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. He not only probably was the
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  Speaker 1: godfather of fireworks, right, and have one leg up in
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  Speaker 1: this field, in that field, I should say, one leg
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  Speaker 1: up on pyromania. He reduced the cost of blasting rock,
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  Speaker 1: drilling tunnels, building canals, and many other forms of construction work.
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  Speaker 1: And so he ended up traveling around and doing all that.
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  Speaker 1: And they say the Nobel Prizes have become an extension
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  Speaker 1: and a fulfillment of his lifetime interests. Truly, Nobel Prize,
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  Speaker 1: no Alfred Nobel had one leg up on a global scale,
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  Speaker 1: and so too do the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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  Speaker 1: A idea that was written into a will and now
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  Speaker 1: it's a long standing tradition. How cool is that? And
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  Speaker 1: how is that for leaving impact beyond your earthly time?
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  Speaker 1: A Malex Scarett and congratulations to the Nobel Prize winners
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  Speaker 1: of this year. You can find out about them on
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  Speaker 1: Nobelprize dot org. And good good on the seventy seven
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  Speaker 1: that spoke up against rfk's nomination and spoke up directly
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  Speaker 1: to the Senate. The Senate listens on the moling Up Network.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Alex Garrett. Mm hmm.